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December 1, 2023
Red States Can Lead the Way on Marriage and Fatherhood
…“fathers matter for their children’s welfare in ways that are different from, but equal to, those of mothers.” He points to the educational, mental-health, and other benefits that engaged fathers…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…done to help lower-income Americans live the sorts of lives that our society decides are at least minimally acceptable — especially lives built around better-paying jobs. What we do matters,…
November 27, 2023
For kids, marriage still matters
…sequence — especially its incorporation of marriage — is not without its critics. Leftists like Matt Bruenig, president of the People’s Policy Project, claim that all that really matters is having a…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
Thirty years ago, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) wrote a seminal essay titled “Defining Deviancy Down.” He argued that Americans had “become accustomed to alarming levels of crime…
November 20, 2023
The Next Time States Are “Swimming in Money” Make Them Repay Their Federal Loans
The pandemic was full of firsts, including the first time states received hundreds of billions of federal dollars they could use to shore up their depleted state unemployment insurance (UI) programs. The…
November 17, 2023
Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’
…Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, social scientist Richard V. Reeves explained that boys are falling well behind their female peers. “There are very big gaps in terms…
November 8, 2023
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
…of individuals’ real-life social networks, this data provides researchers with the rare opportunity to measure real-world social networks at population scale and ask: who knows whom, and does this matter?…
November 1, 2023
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…families. But none of it will matter if we are not also able to restore our lost sense of shared belonging and common purpose by dint of being Americans. Without…
October 31, 2023
Lawmakers Continue Trying to Revive Pandemic-Style Benefits
In 2008, Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama, famously issued Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…influences on their children? These questions matter, because, in the real world, the alternative to children living with a single parent is not always two nurturing, married, biological parents who…